Close-up view of experimental pollutant collection equipment near Puffer Lake (3.31919)
Date: January 1972Type: Photographic image
Description:Close-up view of experimental pollutant collection equipment near Puffer Lake
Extent: 1 negative
Experimental devices to catch salt from East-West Tollway near Puffer Lake (3.31922)
Date: January 1972Type: Photographic image
Description:Arboretum scientists have installed experimental devices at intervals to catch salt and other fallout at various distances from the East-West Tollway near Puffer Lake.
Extent: 1 negative
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 10 No. 02 (3.34468)
Date: June 21 – September 20 1974Type: Serial
Description:
- Living Footnotes in a Garden (17-26)
- Research Notes/ Climatological Summary (27-29)
- Bur Oak, Quercus macrocarpa: Beech Family (Fagaceae) (30-31)
- The Unexpected Drop-In (32)
(links to these articles can be found below under RELATED OBJECTS)
Extent: 16 pages
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 10 No. 03 (3.34469)
Date: September 21 – December 20 1974Type: Serial
Description:
- Immigrant Plants (33-39)
- Norway Maple, Acer platanoides: Maple Family (Aceraceae) (40-41)
- Impressions of Wolf Road Prairie (42-44)
- Research Notes/ People & Projects/ Climatological Summary (45-47)
- Acorns Large & Small (48)
Extent: 16 pages
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 11 No. 04 (3.34474)
Date: December 21 1975 – March 20 1976Type: Serial
Description:
- I Envy the Goose (49-55)
- How to Learn from Nature (56-59)
- Downy Hawthorn, Crataegus mollis: Rose Family (Rosaceae) (60-61)
- Research Notes/ Climatological Summary (62-63)
- Ladies First (64)
Extent: 16 pages
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 06 No. 02 (3.34571)
Date: June 21 – September 20 1970Type: Serial
Description:
- Firethorn (Pyracantha) in Northeast Illinois: A Second Look (17-25, 32)
- Rain Tree Fountain (26-27)
- Red Maple, Acer rubrum: Maple Family (Aceraceae) (28-29)
- Wild Flower Protection in Illinois (30-31)
- Arboretum News and Notes (32)
- Climatological Summary (32)
Extent: 16 pages
Chicago River Garden, between Randolph and Washington St. (3.3569)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Chicago River Garden, between Randolph and Washington St., across the Chicago River from the Morton Salt Company's building
The garden was created and maintained by the Garden Club of Illinois in 1955, with Harold Klopp as the landscape architect.
The Morton Arboretum used this garden for experiments with street trees and other plants in 1959.
Extent: 1 photograph
Chicago River Garden, between Randolph and Washington St., view from walkway to river (3.3570)
Type: Photographic image
Description:View from walkway of Chicago River Garden to river, between Randolph and Washington St., across the Chicago River from the Morton Salt Company's building
The garden was created and maintained by the Garden Club of Illinois in 1955, with Harold Klopp as the landscape architect.
The Morton Arboretum used this garden for experiments with street trees and other plants in 1959.
Extent: 1 photograph
2016 Perennial Report (3.36138)
Date: 2017Type: Document
Oak research in France (3.36289)
Date: June 6 2014Creator: The Morton Arboretum
Type: Photographic image
Description:Group of oak researchers, including Andrew Hipp, senior scientist in plant systematics and herbarium curator at The Morton Arboretum, in front of 300-year-old oak tree in France
Tree Research Plot at The Morton Arboretum (3.36296)
Date: 2012Creator: The Morton Arboretum
Type: Photographic image
Description:Rows of trees representing different research projects fill the Tree Research Plot at The Morton Arboretum
Jason "Jake" Miesbauer measuring a tree trunk at The Morton Arboretum (3.36297)
Date: July 11 2013Creator: The Morton Arboretum
Type: Photographic image
Description:Jason "Jake" Miesbauer, research arborist, and Marvin Lo, research assistant, measuring and recording the circumference of a tree trunk in the East Woods of The Morton Arboretum
Herbarium intern studying plants in the research garden at The Morton Arboretum (3.36309)
Date: August 6 2015Creator: The Morton Arboretum
Type: Photographic image
Description:Alexa Cotton, herbarium intern, kneeling to study plants in the research garden at The Morton Arboretum
Center for Tree Science fellow taking measurements in the root laboratory at The Morton Arboretum (3.36310)
Date: August 17 2015Creator: The Morton Arboretum
Type: Photographic image
Description:Angelica Lopes, Center for Tree Science fellow, taking measurements in the root laboratory at The Morton Arboretum
Oak research in France (3.36319)
Date: May 7 2014Creator: The Morton Arboretum
Type: Photographic image
Description:Béatrice Chassé conducting research on seedlings at the Arboretum des Pouyouleix
Oak research in France (3.36320)
Date: May 7 2014Creator: The Morton Arboretum
Type: Photographic image
Description:Béatrice Chassé observing saplings through a fence at the Arboretum des Pouyouleix
Ray Schulenberg with Cathy Ciolac studying specimens in Herbarium (3.36548)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Ray Schulenberg with Cathy Ciolac studying specimens in Herbarium
Extent: 1 photograph
Ray Schulenberg in Herbarium with Cathy Ciolac studying specimen (3.36549)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Ray Schulenberg in Herbarium with Cathy Ciolac studying specimen
Extent: 1 photograph
Undated: Jeff Mengler to George Ware et al. (3.37832)
Creator: Mengler, Jeff
Type: Document
Description:Arboretum memo from Jeff Mengler to George Ware, Marlin Bowles, Kris Bachtell, Joe Larkin, Marion Hall, and Floyd Swink about the delivery of a report concerning findings from a seed bank study that was part of the Des Plaines River Wetland Demonstration project.
Extent: 1 sheet
1974/07/17: Jim Dolittle [?] to George Ware (3.37834)
Date: July 17 1974Creator: Doolittle, Jim
Type: Document
Description:Note to Dr. Ware from Jim Dolittle [?] thanking him for research material. In addition to sending a copy of his report, he also enclosed two articles [report and articles not included with note].
Extent: 1 sheet
1979/01/22: William Rust to George Ware (3.37855)
Date: January 22 1979Creator: Rust, William
Type: Document
Description:Letter from William Rust of Sheaffer & Roland, Inc. to George Ware concerning a paper and findings of a 1978 study on Sterling Pond.
Extent: 1 sheet
Clarence Godshalk with Webster Crowley studying Dutch Elm Disease (3.3798)
Date: 1950sType: Photographic image
Description:Clarence Godshalk with Webster Crowley studying Dutch Elm Disease
Extent: 1 photograph
1981/03/03: Jeff Dawson to George Ware (3.38659)
Date: March 3 1981Creator: Dawson, Jeffrey O.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Jeff Dawson, Assistant Professor of Forestry at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to George Ware discussing an outline of proposed research concerning the low soil oxygen tolerance (with mention of ethanol and flood tolerance) of maple and oak trees.
Enclosed with letter
An Ethanol Tree-Seedling Assay: A Potential Method to Screen Trees for Tolerance to Low Soil Oxygen Conditions Resulting from Soil Compaction and Paving. Review of current literature and proposal for two experiments to examine oxygen deficiency and ethanol tolerance in tree seedling roots. The results would be used in the creation of an tree survivability index which would be of use in flood prone areas or compacted urban and recreational sites.
Extent: 7 sheets, 1 envelope
Lane Scher and undergraduate research fellows collecting pollen with a drone (3.39862)
Date: April 11 2017Creator: Phelps, Caleb
Type: Photographic image
Description:Lane Scher, Center for Tree Science research assistant, and two undergraduate research fellows (URF) using a drone to collect pollen near Bulb Meadow at The Morton Arboretum
Marvin Lo and Frank Balestri with a sonogram machine (3.39867)
Date: October 10 2016Creator: Phelps, Caleb
Type: Photographic image
Description:Marvin Lo, research assistant, and Frank Balestri, plant health care technician, connecting a tree to a sonogram machine at Ware Field at The Morton Arboretum
1985/01/23: Herman Sievering to George Ware (3.40005)
Date: January 23 1985Creator: Sievering, Herman
Type: Document
Description:A letter from Herman Sievering of Governors State University to George Ware discussing plans and staffing to study highway impacts,needle-washing, canopy exchange, and throughfall measurements.
Enclosed with the letter is an article titled "Contributions of Acid Deposition and Natural Processes to Cation Leaching for Forest Soils" from the Journal of the Air Pollution Association dated November, 1983.
Extent: 8 sheets
1985/01/21: Herman Sievering to George Ware (3.40009)
Date: January 21 1985Creator: Sievering, Herman
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Herman Sievering of Governors State University to George Ware concerning the cost of appointing Sievering to conduct air pollution impacts on woody plants.
Extent: 2 sheets
1984/09/21: Herman Sievering to Tom Green and George Ware (3.40103)
Date: September 21 1984Creator: Sievering, Herman
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Herman Sievering of Governors State University to Tom Green and George Ware discussing an upcoming needle washing and canopy throughfall experiment with pricing information for equipment needed, including detailed information on an Aerochem Metrics wet/dry sampler. A copy of Herman Sievering's resume is also included.
Extent: 15 sheets
The Care of Trees giving The Morton Arboretum a check for Dr. Gary Watson's research on roots (3.4062)
Date: 1990sType: Photographic image
Description:The Care of Trees giving The Morton Arboretum a check for Dr. Gary Watson's research on roots, group standing outside near Hedge Collection
(L to R): Gerry Donnelly, Gary Watson, Larry Hall (Vice President, The Care of Trees), John Hendricksen (President, The Care of Trees), Christopher Dunn
Extent: 1 photograph
1985/01/15: George Ware to Herman Sievering (3.41607)
Date: January 15 1985Creator: Ware, George
Type: Document
Description:Letter from George Ware to Herman Sievering granting approval for his proposed experimental work on canopy through-fall using planted pine trees including all associated costs.
Extent: 1 sheet
1984/11/21: Thomas L. Green to [George Ware] (3.41608)
Date: November 21 1984Creator: Green, Tom
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Thomas L. Green describing the research work that Dr. Herman Sievering and James Crawley of Governors State University will be conducting at The Morton Arboretum and explaining that they are to be admitted to the grounds at no charge.
Extent: 1 sheet
Guest speakers, Chris Whelan and Rita Mesquita, in the Research Building (3.4278)
Date: 1990Type: Photographic image
Description:Guest speakers for Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia, Chris Whelan and Rita Mesquita (University of Georgia), in the Research Building
Lecture topics of guest speakers: 1)Natural History on the Amazon Basin 2) The Reproductive Biology of Clusia Grandiflora
Extent: 1 photograph
Factor Analysis of the MAP3S/RAINE Precipitation Chemistry Network: 1976-1980 (3.44140)
Creator: Crawley, Jim, Sievering, Herman
Type: Document
Description:Research paper authored by J. Crawley and H. Sievering of Governors State University titled "Factor Analysis of the MAP3S/RAINE Precipitation Chemistry Network: 1976-1980"
Extent: 30 sheets
1992/05/21: Jerry Wilhelm to Chris Whelan (3.44209)
Date: May 21 1992Creator: Wilhelm, Gerould
Type: Document
Description:Memo from Jerry Wilhelm to Chris Whelan in response to a memo dated May 7, 1992 discussing the governing philosophy of the curation and maintenance of the Arboretum's Collections versus experimental science, with an emphasis on the East Woods.
Extent: 1 sheet
1992/04/07: Chris Whelan to George [Ware] and various staff members (3.44210)
Date: April 7 1992Creator: Whelan, Christopher J.
Type: Document
Description:Memo from Chris Whelan to various staff members requesting input in regards to the educational, management, and research issues that they consider important in relation to the East Woods. A post-it note is attached to the memo, signed Chris W. and dated April 14, 1992, asking George [Ware] to review the content.
Extent: 4 sheets
1992/06/03: Rick Hootman and Pat Kelsey to Chris Whelan (3.44211)
Date: June 3 1992Creator: Hootman, Rick, Kelsey, Pat
Type: Document
Description:Memo from Rick Hootman and Pat Kelsey to Chris Whelan regarding research questions and other issues of concern regarding the East Woods.
Extent: 2 sheets